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They threw away their bras as a symbolic breaking loose, they foreswore make-up in revolt against the Look, and donned shapeless Indian prints that defied the Hollywood wasp-waisted ideal. They sat with legs widespread in mockery of Propriety and wore tattered jeans to taunt Ladylike Deportment. And they stopped shaving and stopped bathing to exult in the smells they trailed in the air. Rebellion against the Look was merely the easiest way to protest the Role, since the Look, be it slickfigured or heavy-breasted, was primed for seduction, for capitalizing on your assigned status...
...more than 15 years, Chinese women, in their no-nonsense bobs and shapeless pantsuits, have been too busy to worry about how they looked. No woman leader has been seen wearing a dress in public since the cultural revolution. Heads snapped, therefore, when Chiang Ching, who is also Mrs. Mao Tse-tung and No. 3 in the Politburo, appeared at the floodlit Sino-U.S. basketball game in Peking wearing a well-tailored gray midi with white sandals and a white shoulder-strap bag. The Americans won 89 to 59. But Mrs. Mao, dazzling in her nonuniform and seated next...
...interactions between the young and the old--young Democrats and old Democrats, young Republicans and old Republicans, and demonstrators and police. Each face-off developed in its own way, and Mailer, who can't bear to consider himself as part of the old, wrestled continuously with the changing but shapeless form of the young, never quite pinning it all down at once...
...this production, Dick Goodall plays Caesar as a white-greatcoated, tophatted gentleman by Oscar Wilde out of Henry James. The rest of the men in the cast appear in motley bodystockings, and the women in rather shapeless, unflattering costumes. The effect is stunning, providing a brilliant contrast in which Caesar emerges as the master spirit of his age, surrounded by men of lesser vision who do not begin to approach his stature. The costuming neutralizes Shaw's famous criticism that this play turns the giant of ancient history into a cavilling buffoon. Goodall's Caesar is masterful, dominating the play...
...pounder named Nancy Austin not only wears them but markets them. She is drawing customers from all over the U.S. for custom-designed fat-lady clothes. Until she began selling her bright, fashionable originals at a small shop in Las Vegas, clothes for chubby women were mostly dismal, shapeless outfits intended primarily for camouflage. Nancy has other ideas. Her shop, which opened in May 1970 on a skinny $5,000 investment, is now grossing nearly $100,000 a year...